Autism as a Minamata Disease Variant: Analysis Of A Pernicious Legacy

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Autism as a Minamata Disease Variant: Analysis Of A Pernicious Legacy

P. Stoller, MD, FAAP,International Hyperbaric Medical

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Abstract

Minamata Disease is a myriad of neurological and

neurodevelopmental symptoms stemming from the pollution of Minamata

Bay, Japan with 27 tons of organic mercury by the Chisso Corporation.

The corporation denied responsibility and continued to pollute

waterways for three decades.

While research findings showing mercury was the cause of

Minamata disease were concealed by the corporation, a number of

committees, of which Chisso Corporation employees were members, were

formed to research the problem. The committees denied this information

and refuted the direct link of mercury. Today, the causes of autism

and several neurodevelopmental disorders may be linked to mercury.

Genetic and environmental risk factors are involved, but the epidemic

increase in autism parallels cumulative mercury exposure through

Thimerosal containing vaccines. Children with autism have a decreased

detoxification capacity with a higher mercury exposure during

pregnancy due to maternal dental amalgam and Thimerosal containing

immunoglobulin shots. In vitro, mercury and Thimerosal in levels found

after vaccination inhibit methionine synthase (MS) by 50%. Normal

function of MS is crucial in biochemical steps necessary for brain

development, attention and production of glutathione, an important

mercury-detoxifying agent. Autistic children have significantly

decreased levels of reduced glutathione. Numerous committees from

numerous agencies have met in response to the growing evidence in

support of mercury as the etiology of a growing epidemic. Research

papers were created and reports generated all apparently predetermined

to exonerate Thimerosal and control vaccine policy, from both within

and outside the United States.

Today, Thimerosal has been reintroduced back into the routine

vaccine schedule with pressure from the WHO and the CDC based on the

strength of what appears to be flawed and/or fabricated data whose

influence remains unchecked; meanwhile, mercury exposure continues to

increase the number of learning disabled and dependent children.

+ Read full paper here: http://www.sarnet.org/lib/KSMinamata1.pdf